RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Embracing and shooting guns and fireworks into the air, Palestinians celebrated the UN General Assembly's decision on Thursday to upgrade them to a non-member observer state.
As members of the body cast their vote, there was silence in Yasser Arafat square in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where large screens were set up to broadcast the session.
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